Hello again!!
Still in Cape Town and definitely loving life! This place is amazing. During the week we head out at 8am and take 2 different mini-buses to our project in Woodstock. (When we say mini-buses we mean large vans that can hold up to 15 people that are battered and play really loud and awful music with the guy yelling out the door trying to get as many people on the bus as possible. It is quite the experience.) We stay at our project until around 3:30 and the bulk of our day is spent caring for the children in the creche. A Creche is similar to a daycare centre with schooling. All the children are under 6 years of age and there is just under 20 of them. They are here because they and their mothers have been abused or are destitute. St. Anne's helps them get their life in track by offering living quarters, work/skill shops and counselling. It is a really good set up for giving the women a chance. The older children separate from the infants and are taught basic skills through out the day. We spend most of our time in the nursery. Sam is absolutely in love with the little babies. There is a new baby that is only one month old and he was born premature so he is absolutely tiny. They are each so cute and we try and divide our time amongst them. The older kids love to say that we are "boyfriend and girlfriend" and do" kissy-kissy". They love it when we go outside with them on the play-structures. They ran around with our camera today and were doing photo shoots of each other. Most of the photos are just fingers.
Tomorrow morning we are going on a two day tour called the "wildlife safari" where we get more of a taste of South Africa. Cannot wait!!
Missing you all
xox
Still in Cape Town and definitely loving life! This place is amazing. During the week we head out at 8am and take 2 different mini-buses to our project in Woodstock. (When we say mini-buses we mean large vans that can hold up to 15 people that are battered and play really loud and awful music with the guy yelling out the door trying to get as many people on the bus as possible. It is quite the experience.) We stay at our project until around 3:30 and the bulk of our day is spent caring for the children in the creche. A Creche is similar to a daycare centre with schooling. All the children are under 6 years of age and there is just under 20 of them. They are here because they and their mothers have been abused or are destitute. St. Anne's helps them get their life in track by offering living quarters, work/skill shops and counselling. It is a really good set up for giving the women a chance. The older children separate from the infants and are taught basic skills through out the day. We spend most of our time in the nursery. Sam is absolutely in love with the little babies. There is a new baby that is only one month old and he was born premature so he is absolutely tiny. They are each so cute and we try and divide our time amongst them. The older kids love to say that we are "boyfriend and girlfriend" and do" kissy-kissy". They love it when we go outside with them on the play-structures. They ran around with our camera today and were doing photo shoots of each other. Most of the photos are just fingers.
Tomorrow morning we are going on a two day tour called the "wildlife safari" where we get more of a taste of South Africa. Cannot wait!!
Missing you all
xox
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